TheMusicalMarine Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 The only K.C. I know of is from early MJQ sides, before Connie Kaye replaced him. Any recommendations are appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agriffith Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Klook is one of my all-time favorites! I HIGHLY recommend the following: 1) The Trio (Savoy cd) Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, and Klook (masterful brushwork) 2) Dexter Gordon: Our Man In Paris (Blue Note) 3) Bud Powell: Tribute to Cannonball (Columbia) w/ Don Byas (great early 60's Bud and Klook) 4) Charlie Parker: Swedish Schnapps (Verve) w/ Klook on half and Max Roach on half 5) Sonny Rollins: Live In France 1959 (Landscape) Hard to find live date with Klook and Henry Grimes (Killer stuff!!) I think it's been released on several different labels 6) Monk: Plays Duke Ellington (Riverside) very subtle Klook on brushes mostly; great Monk trio date; with Oscar Pettiford also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I would add the Miles Prestige sessions, Klook's disc in the Americans Swinging In Paris series and Eddy Louiss trio cd on Dreyfus. The Louiss date is a real sleeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Like Andrew, Klook is one of my favorites and was an inspiration for my drumming (way back when). His list looks like one I would concoct! I'll add that if you can find them his work on the Rearward small group cds of the Clarke Boland Big Band is phenomenal, as is his work in the Francy Boland Quartet recording on MPS "Out of the Background." Great stuff that I reach for for a Klook fix! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Klook was amazing "in person". He had a unique sound and the brush/snare/cymbal work was magical. In the late '70s he was in Chicago for a week or two to tape a TV show (Diz tribute) and worked a week at Joe Segal's. I went to the club and the show tapings. I envy our French friends with more opportunities to listen. I think the CBBB has it's own qualities (very fine), but it's not the best place to hear Klook. Two drummers blur the image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I love "Ernie Wilkins-Kenny Clarke Septet" on Savoy, I don't know if is it available on cd, but for me definitely it worths a search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryan Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 2) Dexter Gordon: Our Man In Paris (Blue Note) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 agriffith's recommendations were right on target. Other favorites I would add: - the Charlie Christian jam sessions from 1941 where Kenny Clarke bombs the scene, - Round About Midnight at the Blue Note, a 1962 date with Bud Powell (Dreyfus), - the Walter Davis live album at Le Dreher in Paris (with Pierre Michelot) which has just been reissued. One of Kenny Clarke's last date with a superb trio. http://www.alapage.com/mx/?tp=F&type=3&DIQ...nee_appel=REF05 I was lucky to hear Kenny Clarke quite a number of times when he was the house drummer at the Club Saint-Germain (later at the Blue Note) in the late fifties. Heard him then with most of the invited guests: Miles Davis, Jay Jay Johnson, Bud Powell, etc. That was an education! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 The Milt Jackson/Lucky Thompson sessions cut for Savoy have some particularly fine work from Clarke. Also worth checking out the Rearward issue of the Karl Drevo 'Clap Hands Here Comes..' and the Blue Note 'Golden Eight' session. This last one is way overdue for CD reissue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Chuck, those Clarke-Boland recordings I recommend are all small group and have just Klook on the traps, no Clare. On Rearward there's "Calypso Blues," "All the Cats," and "Griff and Bags." And the MPS Boland Quartet group (Boland, Woode, Sadi, Clarke) is killer ("Out of the Background"). Clarke really swings hard and does amazing work on these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 That Wilkins cd WAS available from Savoy/Denon. My guess is that it will eventually resurface on cd. . . . I love all the work that Klook did with his traps for Savoy! Amazing foundation for the music. Taste and drive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcello Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Those live recording with Bud Powell in Paris are great. I'm thinking of "Live at the Blue Note' on ESP and those others made by Francis Paudras that feature Zoot, Dizzy and Griffin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 The Clarke-Wilkins is a great cd and a tough find these days...but if you search around you're bound to find a copy, Marine. That, and several of the Fuller Savoys (Jazz Eyes, Jazz, It's Magic) have popped up on the Amazon site in recent months. The two that I'd like to see come out on cd are 'Klook's Clique' and the excellent 'Paris/Cologne' double LP (Disques Swing) that collects four '57 sessions recorded in Paris & Cologne featuring Clarke in a quartet, quintet, sextet, octet and tentet w/folks like Lucky Thompson, Martial Solal, Don Byas, Pierre Michelot, Fats Sadi, Maurice Vander, etc.. You ever spot this one sitting in an LP bin, dive for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I also believe he's on some of the Blue Note JJ Johnson sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Chuck, those Clarke-Boland recordings I recommend are all small group and have just Klook on the traps, no Clare. Notice I said CBBB - I was not commenting on your list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannonball-addict Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Bohemia After Dark (EmArcy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Cool. Just checking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 2) Dexter Gordon: Our Man In Paris (Blue Note) 3) Bud Powell: Tribute to Cannonball (Columbia) w/ Don Byas (great early 60's Bud and Klook) 4) Charlie Parker: Swedish Schnapps (Verve) w/ Klook on half and Max Roach on half 6) Monk: Plays Duke Ellington (Riverside) very subtle Klook on brushes mostly; great Monk trio date; with Oscar Pettiford also! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Klook in his Parisian prime can be heard on two sessions with Bud Powell recorded for French CBS and reissued by Columbia Legacy a few years ago in great sound: A Portrait of Thelonious A Tribute to Cannonball All the Savoys are great, both leader and sideman dates. But "Kenny Clarke Meets The Detroit Jazzmen" is a model in intelligent small group playing: no two tracks have the same solo order. This is the issue with the bonus track: The two Classics CDs cover his early dates: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Bohemia After Dark (EmArcy) On EmArcy?!? That was a Savoy date... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 (edited) Plays Hodeir- JiP series- Hodeir is a very interesting arranger and composer- doesn't get many mentions ed. for spelling Edited December 13, 2004 by Clunky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Plays Hodier- JiP series- Hodier is a very interesting arranger and composer- doesn't get many mentions Not to be punctilious, but actually it´s Hodeir and not Hodier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Sorry for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Sorry for that If I´d count every time I´ve mispelled an English word, the list would never end! :rsly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Hodeir has often been misspelled Hodier in english. Just do a Google and see! A pretty common mistake. But it is HODEIR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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